ELTA SIGMA RHO, national honorary organization for intercollegiate debaters, has for its purpose the encouragement of sincere and effective public speaking. To be eligible for membership one must have participated in at least one intercollegiate forensic contest. The society was organized at Chicago on April 13, 1906, by eight middle western universities, one of which was Nebraska. The other charter members were Chicago, Illinois, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Northwestern, and Wisconsin.

     Each year the chapter holds a reunion during Round-Up Week for former members of the intercollegiate debate seminar. Last year the reunion took the form of a luncheon at the Lincoln hotel on the noon of Ivy Day. Members of the society are frequently called upon to serve as judges and presiding officers at the state high school debating tournament, and also to judge debates out in the state. This year the society has eleven undergraduate members.

     The fraternity is governed by an executive committee which is composed of the general officers and district vice-presidents. The Gavel, the fraternity publication, appears quarterly. Prof. M. M. Fogg is faculty sponsor of the Nebraska chapter.

OFFICERS

President	WENDELL BERGE
Secretary	HUGH B. COX

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AMMA EPSILON PI, honorary commerce sorority, was founded at the University of Illinois, March 26, 1918, by five junior women who felt the need of such an honorary organization. With it were consolidated two other organizations, Phi Sigma Chi and Alpha Gamma Pi, in the summer of 1922.

     Mu chapter of the sorority was installed at the University of Nebraska on May 7, 1923, with five charter members. The sorority now has eighteen active and seven alumni chapters in the country. Only junior and senior women in the College of Commerce or Business Administration who rank high in scholarship are eligible for membership.

     The main object of the organization is to encourage and reward scholarship among women by recognizing exceptional ability. The sorority at Nebraska is endeavoring to make the standards in scholarship among women of the College of Business Administration higher, as well as creating a better feeling in the school.

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